Scott Adams reveals (admits?) the origins of "Dilbert"

Regular readers of WWW know that Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] are regular readers of Dilbert, the only comic strip that makes of today's woke America. (It has therefore been banned by dozens of newspapers.) True fans know that Dilbert has a strongly autobiographical flavour, but Mr Adams has never said as much in the strip itself. Until today.

Not that it was a secret. The story has been told in interviews with Mr Adams, and in the dust jacket blurbs on his books. Here's the Wikipedia version.   

Scott Raymond Adams (born 8 June 1957) is an American author and cartoonist. He is the creator of the syndicated Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. Dilbert gained national prominence during the downsizing period in 1990s America and reached a worldwide audience. 

Mr Adams worked in various business roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. He writes in a satirical, often sarcastic way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations.

Well, there's more to it than that. For years, Scott Adams welcomed True Stories from the insanely funny real world of business, and worked them into his strips, just as the second panel of today's strip says. 

Latterly, life in America -- not just the business world -- has got so ridiculous that he no longer needs to solicit stories. All he has to do is read the papers. As witness this week's politically incorrect strips in which the pointy-haired boss interviews diverse candidates -- a white woman, a south Asian man and a Black man -- to apply for a new position as head of AI, just to comply with "ESG" mandates, only to give the job to Tina the tech writer, who knows nothing about AI. 

In today's woke America, that's not satire, folks, that's just reporting. Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] wish Scott Adams continued success. Keep on truckin'! Honk honk!